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Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1932 Wheeler and Woolsey comedy Hold ’em Jail . In this one, one of their funnier ones, the boys get their turn at a fun…
It seemed for awhile as though I would never get to see the Liberty Ship  S.S. John W. Brown during her current stay at Pier 36 in New York. Originally scheduled to arrive on September 9 …
D’oop! It just occurred to me that I neglected to mention something major in THIS space. The word went out over all manner of social media, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and so forth. B…
Today is the birthday of the illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) Â — a distant relative of mine! Gibson was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and studied at the Arts Students Le…
E’en as we are in the midst of today’s TCM slapstick offerings, we give you a sampling of tomorrow’s, wherein they  will be showing several slapstick classics from…
I’ve been planning this post for a while, as a follow up to my earlier post highlighting some of my idle dreams about a future Coney Island. It’s some of my cray-cray and not-so-…
If you’ve done any amount of time kicking around the Lower East Side, you’ve passed the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street Between 1st and 2nd Avenues. It’s not…
We were fortunate to catch opening day of Circus Amok’s 2016 touring season yesterday at the Abrons Arts Center. It’s a more stripped down, lean and mean show this year, with a s…
As part of their monthlong slapstick series, tomorrow TCM will be showing several classics from the 1930s — the first decade of talkies. Unsurprisingly, and much to their credit, they …
Lest the relatively frivolous or contained nature of this tragic post offend you, I hasten to point out all of the appropriately somber posts I have done about September 11, 2001. This is…
Apart from the more somber anniversary we’re observing this morning, today happens to be National Grandparents Day. I thought I would take this opportunity to remember my own grandpare…
In remembrance of the day, a little wrap-up of some of our past articles posted here on September 11 in years past. Just click on the link to get to the post. Here at Travalanche we NEVER fo…
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: burlesque, Hard Swallow, Kita St. Cyr, Planet Kita
It may be as long as ten years ago since I last saw my old friend Mel Delancey on stage. Let’s just say that it was long enough ago that she was still in an improv troupe with her (now…
The horrific events of September 11, 2001 were, you must admit, a triumph of planning: time, resources, personnel, organization. And for the most part, the perpetrators achieved what they se…
Today is the birthday of James Maurice  “Jimmy” Barry (1868-1940). Barry was originally from Boston; his father was a harness-maker who immigrated from Ireland.  Jimmy s…
Today is the birthday of character actor Frank Cady (1915-2012). Cady was a distant cousin of mine through my maternal grandmother Ruth Cady. While he grew up in California and Oregon, hi…
I will take it as a sure sign of the un-momentousness of the news in our headline when (as they inevitably will) people respond to this when I post it with remarks like “What-? When di…
Everey Tuesday and Wednesday in September, Turner Classic Movies will be showing some of the finest silent comedy and slapstick classics (and documentaries thereon). Here’s what’…
Hugh O’Brian died earlier this week at the age of 91. While Baby Boomers and older probably know him best as the title character in the smash tv series The Life and Legend of Wyatt …
Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy The Count (1916). This movie shows Chaplin at the top of his game as a straight up comedian, chock …
Tonight on TCM: a menu of lesser-known but (for the most part) important silent comedy classics: 8:oopm (EST): The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) The first of Robert Youngson’s numerous a…
Filed under: Brooklyn, Contemporary Variety, Indie Theatre, PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: benefit, Big Sky Works, BROOKLYN, flood, Louisiana, vaudeville
Filed under: BROOKLYN, Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Broadway Brassy, Burlesque at Bedford Hall, House of Noire, Perle Noire
Today is the centennial anniversary of the release date of the D.W. Griffith film, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916). Perhaps the most spectacular motion…
